'King Lear,' R&B and Summer Divertimento ?€“ What to Do in Moscow on Tuesday

By The Moscow Times

June 8, 2015

The Inspector General (Revizor): Sergei Zemlyansky's movement version of Gogol's play about a traveling innocent who wreaks havoc in a provincial town when he is mistaken for a government official. Yermolova Theater. Yermolova Theater

Organ Duet of Susanna Veerman and Wim Does performs Bach, Schubert, Mendelssohn. Dom Muzyki, Svetlanov Hall, bldg. 8, 52 Kosmodamianskaya Naberezhnaya. Metro Paveletskaya. 495-730-1011. At 7 p.m.

Summer Divertimento: Mendelssohn, Mozart and Schubert performed by soloists of the Pavel Slobodkin Center Chamber Orchestra. Pavel Slobodkin Center, 48 Ulitsa Arbat. Metro Smolenskaya. 499-241-6226. At 7 p.m.

Medea. Equus: Kirill Simonov's contemporary one-act ballet to music by Pavel Karmanov, followed by Anastasia Kadrulyova and Artyom Ignatyev's neoclassical staging about the life of a ballet dancer set to music by Alexei Aigi. Moskva Ballet production. Meyerhold Center, 23 Novoslobodskaya Ulitsa. Metro Mendeleyevskaya. 495-363-1048. At 8 p.m.

King Lear (Korol Lir): Konstantin Raikin stars in Shakespeare's tragedy directed by Yury Butusov. Satirikon Theater, 8 Sheremetyevskaya Ulitsa. Metro Marina Roshcha. 495-689-7844. At 7 p.m.

The Inspector General (Revizor): Sergei Zemlyansky's movement version of Gogol's play about a traveling innocent who wreaks havoc in a provincial town when he is mistaken for a government official. Yermolova Theater, 5/6 Tverskaya Ulitsa. Metro Okhotny Ryad, Ploshchad Revolyutsii. 495-629-0594. At 7 p.m.

Olga Oleinikova and Emergency Band: R&B, jazz, folk, soul. Kozlov Club Second Floor, 16 Olimpiisky Prospekt, Bldg. 2, at the Art&Shock Complex. Metro Prospekt Mira. 926-952-0077. At 8 p.m.

Foreign-Language Movies

Julius Caesar: Dominic Dromgoole's staging of Shakespeare's play about political instability, anxiety, revenge and betrayal starring George Irving, Luke Thompson and Joe Jameson. Globe Theater production.

Formula Kino Gorizont, 21/10 Komsomolsky Prospekt. Metro Frunzenskaya. 800-250-8025. At 7:30 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Testament of Youth (Vospominaniye o Budushchem, 2014): A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I. Directed by James Kent, stars Emily Watson, Colin Morgan and Joanna Scanlan.

Pioner, 21 Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Metro Kutuzovskaya. 499-240-5240. At 2:05 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

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